Running Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit with 2 GB of RAM, it’s every bit a Windows machine that you are quite familiar with. Here’s some of the many cases where the advantages of such a slate can be put to good use.

The desktop experience can be much like the tablet experience, which in turn is a blown-up version of what we’re getting now with Windows Phone 7. So, how does the Windows 8 slate experience stack up against the iOS5 experience on the iPad?